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Cengiz Sinan Çelik
Born in 1974 in Dersim, Cengiz Sinan Çelik is an imprisoned Kurdish poet and painter. Çelik’s artwork has appeared in national and international exhibitions. His poems and articles have also been published in several magazines and newspapers. He is the recipient of numerous Turkish and Kurdish poetry awards. Serdestan, Çelik’s first collection of poetry, was released by Ayrıntı Publishing (Istanbul) in January 2022.
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Ruxandra Cesereanu
Ruxandra Cesereanu (b. 1963) is one of Romania’s foremost literary figures, having achieved international acclaim as a poet, novelist, essayist, and literary critic. Her attainments have been noted in Who’s Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing (Routledge, 2001) and The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2008). Cesereanu’s body of work ranges from her exploration of femininity and eroticism in her poetry and prose to an engagement with Romania’s communist legacy in her essays and journalism. Three of her poetry collections (Schizoid Ocean, Lunacies, and Crusader-Woman) have been translated into English.
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Patrick Chamoiseau
Born in Martinique, Patrick Chamoiseau is the author of twelve novels, including Texaco, which won the Prix Goncourt and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He has been translated into fourteen languages. He is one of the founding theoreticians of the Créolité movement.
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Marianne Chan
Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.
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Kevin Chang
Kevin Chang is a Chicago native studying computer science and creative writing at Stanford. Previously, he was a product designer and prototyper at Google’s VR and AR division, where, at nineteen, he was one of the youngest full-time employees.
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Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang is the author of five books of poetry and two children’s books. To explore how her new book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing Silence and Grief, inhabits a space between prose and poetry, read her conversation with Amy Wright on worldlit.org. Photo by Isaac Fitzgerald
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Hayan Charara
Hayan Charara is the author of three poetry books, most recently Something Sinister, winner of the Arab American Book Award. He is also co-editor and series founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. His children’s book, The Three Lucys, received the New Voices Award Honor. He teaches at the University of Houston.
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Photo by Moti KikayonAmichai Chasson
Amichai Chasson (b. 1987, Ramat Gan, Israel) is a poet, author, journalist, film director, screenwriter, and artistic director. Chasson received the Minister of Culture’s prize in 2015 as well as the Dr. Gardner Simon Prize for Hebrew Poetry for his book Bli Ma in 2018.
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Photo Credit: Bill Franzen/SalonRoz Chast
Rosalind "Roz" Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and The Village Voice. In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review.
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Jhilam Chattaraj
Jhilam Chattaraj is currently working as an Assistant Professor at R.B.V.R.R Women’s College, Department of English, Hyderabad. Her academic and creative writings have been published in journals like Muse India, Indian Book Chronicle, Langlit, Eastlit, Indialogue Foundation, Women’s Web, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and Toasted Cheese Literary Journal. Her poems were exhibited at Elixir of Voices, Aillama Art Gallery, Hyderabad. She is the editor of the literary blog Quills: The World of Words.
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Shakti Chattopadhyay
Early in his life, Shakti Chattopadhyay (1933–1995) was a part of the anti-establishment, avant-garde movement called the Hungry Generation. He worked as a journalist for the Ananda Bazar Patrika and then as a visiting lecturer at Viswa Bharati University. He was a prolific translator and poet, with over a dozen collections to his name, besides novels and other nonfictional prose books. “Old New Griefs” is from his Sahitya Akademi–winning collection Jete Pari Kintu Keno Jabo (1983).
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Geet Chaturvedi
Geet Chaturvedi (b. 1977) is one of the most widely read contemporary Hindi authors. He has authored six books, including two collections of six novellas and two collections of poetry. He was awarded the Krishna Pratap Award for fiction and Bharat Bhushan Award for poetry. His poems have been translated into fourteen languages.
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Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962 ), is an Indian English author and academic. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's highest literary honour, in 2002 for his novel A New World. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. In 2012, Chaudhuri won the Infosys Prize for Humanities-Literary Studies for his imaginative and illuminating writings in literary criticism, which reflect a complex literary sensibility, and great theoretical mastery, along with a probing sense of detail.
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Bernice Chauly
Bernice Chauly is the author of five books of poetry and prose, including the award-winning memoir Growing Up with Ghosts (Matahari Books, 2011). She lectures in creative writing at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and is the director of the George Town Literary Festival. She is currently editing her first novel, which begins during the Malaysian Reformasi movement of 1998.
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Dean Chavers
Dean Chavers is director of Catching the Dream, former president of Bacone College, and initiated the Exemplary Programs in Indian Education (EPIE) movement. He has written over twenty books. In his capacity as director of Catching the Dream, Dr. Chavers has helped more than six hundred Native American students finish college.
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Photo by Stéphane Béchaud / FlammarionAndrée Chedid
Born in Cairo, Andrée Chedid spent her early years hopscotching between Egypt, Lebanon, and France. She eventually settled in Paris, where she was deemed “the lady of two rivers”—the Nile and the Seine. A prolific prose writer and playwright, Chedid claimed that poetry was her favorite form, one to which she returned “as though it were the essential spring.” She won the Prix Goncourt for poetry in 2002 and was named a Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur in 2009. She died in 2011.
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Photo by Josh CheuseAlan Cheuse
Alan Cheuse is the author of the novels The Bohemians (1982), The Grandmother’s Club (1986), The Light Possessed (1990), and To Catch the Lightning (2008), plus three collections of short fiction and a pair of novellas, The Fires (2007). As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. A Trance after Breakfast, his collected travel essays, recently appeared in paperback. His new novel, Song of Slaves in the Desert, will be published in the spring of 2011.
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Alberto Chimal
Alberto Chimal is the author of the novels La torre y el jardín (2012) and Los esclavos (2009) as well as multiple short-story collections. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Short Story Prize and the Bellas Artes Prize for Narrative, his work has appeared in English in the Kenyon Review, Asymptote, and WLT. He lives in Mexico City, where he teaches creative writing at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.
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Frank Chin
Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California, He attended college at the University of California, Berkeley. He received an American Book Award in 1989 for a collection of short stories, The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co., and another in 2000 for Lifetime Achievement. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
Chin is considered to be one of the pioneers in Asian American theatre. He founded the Asian American Theatre Workshop, which became the Asian American Theater Company in 1973. He first gained notoriety as a playwright in the 1970s. His play The Chickencoop Chinaman was the first by an Asian American to be produced on a major New York stage. Stereotypes of Asian Americans, and traditional Chinese folklore are common themes in much of his work.
In addition to his work as an author and playwright, Frank Chin has also worked extensively with Japanese American resisters of the draft in WWII. His novel, Born in the U.S.A., is dedicated to this subject.Chin is also a musician. In the mid-1960s, he taught Robbie Krieger, a member of The Doors how to play the Flamenco guitar.
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Sandro Chiri
Sandro Chiri (b. 1958) is a representative poet of the “Generation of 1980” in Peru. He has published four books of poetry: El libro del mal amor y otros poemas (1989), Y si después de tantas palabras (1992), Viñetas (2004) and Poemas de Filadelfia / Philadelphia Poems (2006). His poetry has been translated into English, Portuguese, and Italian.
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George Choundas
George Choundas’s work has appeared in over fifty publications. His story collection, The Making Sense of Things (FC2), was awarded the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and shortlisted for three other prizes. Winner of the New Millennium Award for Fiction, he is a former FBI agent and half-Cuban/half-Greek.
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Urszula Chowaniec
Urszula Chowaniec is a senior teaching fellow in Polish at University College in London and a professor at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University. She is also the author of Melancholic Migrating Bodies: Polish Contemporary Women’s Writing (Cambridge Scholars, 2015).
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Adrienne Christian
Adrienne Christian is a writer and fine art photographer. Dr. Christian is the author of three poetry collections: Worn (2021), A Proper Lover (2017), and 12023 Woodmont Avenue (2013). Common themes in her work are family, love, and African American life.
